Recruitly MCP for ChatGPT
Recruitly + 
ChatGPT
Add candidates, update records, move pipelines and design your campaign emails, all by asking ChatGPT in your own words.
Connect ChatGPT in a minute
https://mcp.recruitly.dev/mcpThe only thing you copy. You sign in with your own Recruitly account.
What you need
- A ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan, in a browser. Custom plugins are not on the phone app.
- On Business and Enterprise, your ChatGPT admin may need to allow custom MCP servers first.
- Any Recruitly plan. The connection is free.
- A super user in your agency to allow changes once. Until then ChatGPT can only read.
Prefer to read it with pictures? How do I connect Recruitly to ChatGPT? on the help centre.
- 1
Add a custom MCP server
In ChatGPT, open Plugins in the menu on the left, click Add and choose Add custom MCP server.
- 2
Paste the address
Name it Recruitly and paste https://mcp.recruitly.dev/mcp under Connection, with Server URL picked. Authentication stays on OAuth. Tick I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
- 3
Sign in to Recruitly
Click Connect Recruitly. Continue with Google, Microsoft or your email and the 8-digit code we send you. Recruitly sits under Installed in your plugins.
Then let it make changes (a super user, once)
- 1
Open AI Assistant Access
In Recruitly press /, type user management, press Enter and open AI Assistant Access.
- 2
Allow changes
Switch on Allow AI assistants to make changes. Allowed users can now ask ChatGPT to create and update records.
Ask ChatGPT the way you would ask a colleague
Start a new chat, name Recruitly, and type it the way you would say it. ChatGPT creates the record with you as the owner, checks it is not on file already, and changes only the fields you mention.
“Add Holly Marsden as a candidate. Senior Design Engineer at Siemens in Leeds, holly.marsden@outlook.com. She wants £65k a year, one month's notice.”
Add a candidate
“Pull up everything on Barclays before my 2pm call”
Client history
“Move Charlie Carter to First Interview on the DHL Senior Account Manager job”
Pipeline
“Log a note on Kyle Barrett that he wants two more CVs by Friday, and remind me on Thursday”
Note and task
“Find Java developers in London who are actively looking”
Candidate search
“What did we bill this quarter, by consultant?”
Billing
“Design this month's candidate newsletter in our brand and save it to Recruitly”
Campaign email
“Set up a temp pipeline: Applied, Screened, Submitted, Booked, Placed”
Account setup
What ChatGPT can do in Recruitly
80 tools across the whole CRM. It reads, and once a super user allows it, it creates and updates too.
Find anything
Search candidates, jobs, contacts, companies, leads, deals and placements in one ask. Run your saved searches, open full profiles and pull up a CV.
Add and update records
Create candidates from what you heard on a call or straight from a CV, plus companies, contacts, leads, deals and jobs. Updates change only the fields you name.
Work your jobs
Open a job, change its status, add candidates to the pipeline and move them stage by stage. See where every job stands.
Win clients
Read a client's whole history before the call: jobs, placements, contacts and recent activity. Convert a lead into a contact, a candidate or a deal.
Keep the desk moving
Log notes on any record, set and close tasks, check interviews, attach and fetch files, and read or record GDPR consent.
Know your numbers
Billing for any period, KPIs per consultant, placements with fees, pipeline stats and the activity feed for a record, a consultant or the agency.
Run your marketing
Design campaign emails in your agency's brand and save them as templates, write drip campaigns as drafts, and read how every campaign performed.
Set up your account
Super users can set the agency profile, build job pipelines, add dropdown options, tags, teams and offices. Anyone can save their email signature.
Your agency stays in control
A super user decides what assistants may do and who may use them, in User Management under AI Assistant Access.
ChatGPT asks before every change
Each change waits for you to confirm it, and you can open the details first to see exactly what it will send.
Reads until you say so
An assistant can only read Recruitly until a super user switches on Allow AI assistants to make changes in AI Assistant Access.
It works as the user
Each person signs in with their own Recruitly account, with two-factor when their account uses it. Every change is made as that user, with their normal permissions.
You choose who connects
Turn on Only allow selected users to use AI assistants and pick who may. Super users are always allowed. Anyone else is blocked straight away, even if they already connected.
No duplicates
Ask it to add someone you already have, by email, LinkedIn profile or name and employer, and it finds them instead of making a second record.
Nothing is sent for you
Campaign emails are saved as templates and drip campaigns as drafts. You send them from Recruitly.
You see who uses it
AI Assistant Access lists who has connected an assistant and when they last used it.
Use Claude as well? The same server works there too.
Frequently asked questions
Can ChatGPT update my Recruitly records?
Yes. Once a super user switches on Allow AI assistants to make changes in AI Assistant Access, ChatGPT can create and update candidates, contacts, companies, leads, deals and jobs, move candidates through pipelines, and add notes and tasks. It asks you to confirm each change.
Is the Recruitly plugin for ChatGPT free?
Yes, on every Recruitly plan. You need ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu, used in a browser.
How do I add Recruitly to ChatGPT?
In ChatGPT open Plugins, Add, Add custom MCP server, name it Recruitly, paste https://mcp.recruitly.dev/mcp with OAuth, click Create as a plugin, then Connect Recruitly and sign in.
Does it work in the ChatGPT phone app?
No. Custom plugins are added and used in ChatGPT in a browser.
Will ChatGPT create duplicate candidates?
No. Ask it to add someone you already have, by email, LinkedIn profile or name and employer, and it finds them instead of making a second record.
Can ChatGPT design our campaign emails?
Yes. It reads your agency's brand from Recruitly, designs the email and saves it to your templates when you say it is final. Nothing is sent until you send it from Recruitly.